Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.

When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.